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In the last couple of years, I’ve come across an amazing, no-cost
way to obtain great publicity for your company, website, or
organization. And all it takes is a little elbow power (or a few
bucks to hire a writer with same) and the information about where
and how to get the notice.
Today there are over 300,000 online newsletters and electronic
magazines (often called _ezines- for short) and the numbers grow
daily. They cover virtually any topic you can think of, ranging
from working at home to parenting to genealogy.
But here’s the biggest secret of all: Most of them rely on
outside contributors for their information. In fact, many ezine
publishers are starving for quality content. Consequently, they
need experts (and you are an expert on something, aren’t you?) to
provide short articles, tips, and advice to their readers. And
we’re not talking major treatises or giant tomes here; most
ezines publish articles as short as a paragraph or two.
Usually, you won’t get paid a dime for your contribution.
However, because the publication will run your byline (which
includes your name, company, and address -- either physical or
cyber), you’ll end up getting leads in the dozens or hundreds
every time your article runs. That’s dozens or hundreds of new
visitors to your shop, website, or publication. For free.
So, just how do you go about finding ezines that want what you
have to contribute? Well, you can find and approach individual
publishers and offer your articles or tips. But that’s often
time-consuming, frustrating, and difficult. The single best
approach is simply to post your contribution to one of the
growing number of free article distribution services that are
sprouting up across the Web. These services are frequented by
ezine publishers looking for content and posting information
about your article is the quickest way to get noticed.
Depending upon the individual service, to post your article on
their site, set up an autoresponder (a reply service that sends
your article automatically to anyone who requests it, all without
your intervention), or include the article or information about
it in an online announcement service that they offer.
Here are my favorite places to announce your articles:
Business Opportunities and Classifieds Online
Geared strictly for small and home office businesses, this site
features articles from business writers and professionals on
related topics. http://www.boconline.com
CyberProsper website
Focuses on Internet marketing. If selected, your article will
receive its own webpage and be linked to the CyberProsper home
page. http://cyberprosper.com/submit.shtml
EzineArticles website
Provides an ezine and a website with archived and
autoresponder-based articles. Selected articles will be
referenced in the daily or weekly version of the
Ezinenewswire.com ezine. http://www.ezinearticles.com
Ezine Factory website
Publishers can download and reprint the articles stored at this
site free of charge. Authors can add articles to the site once
they have been accepted by the webmaster.
http://home.intekom.co.za/qualitone/wwwboard/wwwboard.html
Free Content ezine
This ezine lets authors submit article summaries and publishers
list needs. The editor prefers article summaries, but recent
issues of the ezine have included complete works.
Free-Content-subscribe@onelist.com
IdeaMarketers website
A very thorough site. If you’re looking for broad exposure, I’d
make this one of your first stops. You actually post your
complete article to the site. http://www.ideamarketers.com
InfoZone website
This one offers a pretty thorough directory of articles designed
for both publishers and authors alike. All articles are stored
online at the InfoZone site, and you can also link to your site.
http://www.MakingProfit.com
IQLibrary website
This site is a new one and is owned by my company,
Intellectua.com. Our plan is to offer a broad range of
professional, business, how-to, computing, and Internet articles
for publishers to use. However, we will be highly selective in
the authors that we include at the site. Please check back
frequently to see what we've added. http://www.IQlibrary.com
LRS Marketing website
This site offers several Internet marketing articles by some of
the better known names in the business. Check out the site at:
http://www.lrsmarketing.com/Resources/free_articles.htm. Send
articles to freearticle@lrsmarketing.com
MediaPeak website
Provides free content to over 2,000 online publishers. The
content is distributed to publishers via an email service, to
which you can subscribe by sending a blank e-mail to:
e-wire-on@mail-list.com. Submit complete articles and up
to four-line tag lines to mediapeak@mindspring.com or
submitnews@aol.com. Articles are archived at the
following website: http://www.mediapeak.com. The site also has
a
content exchange section where publishers announce their needs.
PublishInYours ezine
Designed primarily for you to post complete articles.
PublishInYours-subscribe@onelist.com
Web-Source website
You can submit your article reference, as long as it’s in an
autoresponder, to the website at the following address:
http://www.web-source.net/links/Articles_For_Publication/. You
can also subscribe to and submit articles to the companion ezine,
the Writer and Publisher Connection, by sending a blank e-mail
to: article_announce-subscribe@egroups.com
WriteBusiness website
In the _Articles Reprint_ section.
http://www.writebusiness.com
Writers & Publishers Online ezine
If you’re a publisher with article needs, or an author with
articles you want to distribute to online publications, send a
summary of your needs to: submit@list-content.com.
To
subscribe to this excellent monthly publication,
join-wpo@list-content.com. I suggest subscribing first
to get a feel for the style of the publication and the format of
your submissions.
Michael Werner is the former President and founder of two-time
INC. 500 company, InfoSource, Inc. He is currently the CEO of
Intellectua.com, a publisher of how-to, business, computing, and
Internet ebooks and tools. You can subscribe to the company’s
award-winning, all original-content ezine, The DirtSmart
Netpreneur, featuring weekly news and tools for the small
enterprise and home-based business webmaster. Subscribe at:
http://www.dirtsmart.com/cgi-bin/sub.cgi?aaa
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